Run Your Python Apps From the CLI the Right Way!

Remo Hoeppli
The Python Project
Published in
7 min readJan 31, 2024

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The Python Project — Run Your Python Apps from the CLI the Right Way!

TL;DR

Sometimes running your Python application with the command python3 myapp.py, just isn’t handy enough. But worry not, setuptools got you covered. In this article, I explain how to use the [project.scripts] configuration to install your application as globally callable CLI commands.

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Remo Hoeppli
The Python Project

I am a co-founder and software engineer at Earlybyte. Further, I’m a technology enthusiast and minimalism advocate, striving for simplicity and efficiency.